The release of Trainspotting in 1996 was a defining moment for Gen Xers like me: a mixture of Adidas cool, indie pop and in-your-face deviancy. Based on Irvine Welsh’s superb, scabrous 1993 novel ...

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Oscar winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle, directs the new movie, T2 Trainspotting with the original cast of the 1996 film. The sequel takes a look at these characters' lives 20 years ...

It is kind of mind-boggling,” Irvine Welsh is saying to me in his broad, Edinburgh-accented mutter. “I never thought it would ...

Renton. Sick Boy. Spud. Begbie. Their names are as iconic as the image of the Scottish lads from “Trainspotting” running away from the cops — an homage to The Beatles outpacing their fans in “A Hard ...

THE MUSICAL has arrived, marking the West End debut of Irvine Welsh's iconic story, thirty years after the film that brought it to global attention.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who says still enjoys spikes in sales of his 1993 novel whenever the film 1996 film adaption is aired on TV in the UK, has shared details of the musical he is ...